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• Game designer, add 2-3 inches to your CV! Look inside for details

  No comments | 57 shares | 15. May 2012 | housemarque

  

  Hello game designers, look at your job, now back to me, now back to your job, now back to me. Sadly, it isn't my job but if you came to work with us you could have a job like mine. Do you have what it takes? Now look at your clock, can you see how it ticks, now back to mine, can you make it cuckoo? Look down, back up, where are you? You're on a ...

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• Housemarque at work on unannounced "new projects"

  16 comments | 138 shares | 14. May 2012 | housemarque

  

  Great game development never sleeps. The beginning of 2012 saw Housemarque ship two major titles: the highly acclaimed Super Stardust Delta for PSVita, as well as our first experiment on iOS devices — the brain-racking, lavishly illustrated Furmins, a physic-based puzzle game. As you may have guessed, the purpose of this blog is to give you ...

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• Bosses of Super Stardust Delta - Part 3: Craboid & Hydra Cube

  2 comments | no shares | 05. Apr 2012 | housemarque

  This is the third and last episode in our series of articles about Super Stardust Delta Bosses. If you missed the previous ones, read the first here and the second here. --- Craboid is an iteration of one of the bosses in Super Stardust HD that had long arms and was able to stretch them around the player's ship. In Super Stardust HD the ...

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• Bosses of Super Stardust Delta - Part 2: Buzzsaw & Maggotron

  2 comments | no shares | 02. Apr 2012 | housemarque

  This is the second episode in our series of articles about Super Stardust Delta Bosses. If you missed it, read the first here. --- Buzzsaw is a boss straight out of the earlier Stardust games, but bigger and badder. We like big and deadly cutting tools, and that shows in some of our games (see for example Dead Nation and Road of ...

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• Bosses of Super Stardust Delta - Part 1: Hadronus

  No comments | no shares | 29. Mar 2012 | housemarque

  Today and in the following weeks we will take a closer look at the big and bad end-of-level Bosses of Super Stardust Delta, and examine their roots and place in the Stardust universe. In the previous Stardust games, the name of the Bosses were never shown in-game. Of course, within the design team we gave them names we could call them ...

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• Furmins: the Secret Artworks Stash - Part 4

  One comment | no shares | 22. Mar 2012 | housemarque

  

  Today we conclude our overview on the pre-production artworks created for Furmins. With us, Housemarque's Lead Artist Mikko Eerola. If you missed the previous episodes, find them here, here, and here. For the last part of the interview we featured at the top the image of a sea. What can you tell us about it? This is another example in our ...

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• Furmins: the Secret Artworks Stash - Part 3

  One comment | no shares | 19. Mar 2012 | housemarque

  

  Missed the first two parts? Mikko speaks about more pre-production artoworks here and here. Make sure you check them and see how the Furmins aesthetic has been evolving over time. Ok, so let's continue our discussion speaking of this early draft. Readers can see it at the top of this post, and its name is “Pieces”. This was an initial ...

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• Furmins: the Secret Artworks Stash - Part 2

  2 comments | no shares | 15. Mar 2012 | housemarque

  

  A few days ago we started to go through the pre-production artworks of Furmins with Mikko Eerola, the game's Lead Artist. Let's see what else we found in our secret stash... Up next is this crest background. Readers can see it here at the top. This was one of the first images I came up with when I started exploring the idea of having ...

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• Super Stardust Delta Reviews Roundup

  No comments | no shares | 12. Mar 2012 | housemarque

  Hello there, fans of Super Stardust Delta. Here at Housemarque we are extremely pleased with how the game has been received both by the gaming press and the buyers of a brand new PSVita. It seems we can't go a day without congratulatory comments (one of the latest tweets: "Just 100%'d one of the best games iv played in ages!"), and of course that ...

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• Furmins: the Secret Artworks Stash - Part 1

  2 comments | no shares | 12. Mar 2012 | housemarque

  

  Our exploration into the world of Furmins continues with an additional commentary of Mikko Eerola, the game’s Lead Artist. Renowned for his work on Outland, Mikko’s influence can be found in all aspects of Furmins, from the main characters’ undeniable cuddliness to the game’s rich, immersive backgrounds. In this interview, divided in 4 ...

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• The World of Furmins: the Art of Mikko Eerola - Part 2

  One comment | no shares | 08. Mar 2012 | housemarque

  

  We continue our discussion with Housemarque's Artist Mikko Eerola, responsible for the - very much praised - Art Direction of Furmins. If you missed the first part, check it out here. Why does the world of Furmins look the way it does? That’s an interesting question. I guess the idea came from the fact that we knew from the beginning it ...

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• The World of Furmins: the Art of Mikko Eerola - Part 1

  One comment | no shares | 06. Mar 2012 | housemarque

  

  Our exploration into the world of Furmins, Housemarque Games’ first entry into the iOS market and currently one of the app world’s most entertaining games, continues in an interview with Mikko Eerola, the game’s Lead Artist. Renowned for his work on Outland, Mikko’s influence can be found in all aspects of Furmins, from the main ...

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• Furmins Reviews Roundup - 2

  One comment | no shares | 28. Feb 2012 | housemarque

  

  One week after the previous roundup, we are happy to see more reviews rolling in and the game fan base grow steadily. Best of all, is the news that Furmins has been featured as Gaming App of the Day on Kotaku and as Game of the Week on iPadDevice. Check our full coverage after the image! "Furmins is a great-looking, well-designed, and ...

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• SUPER STARDUST DELTA OUT NOW!

  No comments | no shares | 22. Feb 2012 | Jukka

  

  February 22, 2012 Super Stardust Delta is getting fantastic reviews! You're in for a cosmic spectacle that'll dazzle your senses! We of course recommend buying the total package, giving you more than 10 different game modes in an amazing discounted bundle! Stardust pilots, get ready to shoot your way onto the global (or interstellar) ...

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• The Music and Sound Design of Furmins - Part 2

  One comment | no shares | 17. Feb 2012 | housemarque

  

  To read or download the first part of the interview with Peter and Ari, please click here. Listen the second part in audio format directly from here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhZfjNKzSn4 Ari, you’re familiar with the soundtracks for other Housemaruqe games you’ve worked on in the past, and Furmins is a bit of a departure from ...

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• Furmins: How to Unlock the Bonus World

  No comments | no shares | 15. Feb 2012 | housemarque

  

  Some of you may have noticed that the World 7 badge in the Furmins menu has a blue band around it, as opposed as the red ones wrapping the other Worlds. Why this difference? Cool Breeze Valley, so it's called the Bonus World, was added as an incentive to connect with Furmins on Facebook. The Furmins fan page hosts a stream of news and ...

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• The Music and Sound Design of Furmins - Part 1

  No comments | no shares | 14. Feb 2012 | housemarque

  

  We chat with the two guys responsible for giving players of Housemarque’s new app something to hum along with.  Listen to the interview in audio format directly from here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QShNca_kTo For Furmins, Housemarque’s first foray into the iOS world, a couple of recognizable names were tapped to head up the ...

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• Furmins is back on the App Store!

  No comments | no shares | 13. Feb 2012 | housemarque

  

  They are back! HELSINKI, FINLAND – February 13, 2012 – You can’t keep a good furmin down! After its temporary hiatus from the App Store, the acclaimed physics based action puzzle game from Housemarque, Furmins, is again available for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Here is what the critics have been saying about ...

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• The beautifully rendered world of Furmins hits the App Store today

  No comments | no shares | 02. Feb 2012 | Jukka

  

  HELSINKI, FINLAND – February 2, 2012 Independent Finnish developer Housemarque, the critically acclaimed studio behind Super Stardust HD, Outland and Dead Nation, have today released Furmins, a physics based action puzzle game releasing for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. Furmins finds players attempting to guide the eponymous and ...

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• Housemarque in Technology Fast 50 2011 list

  One comment | no shares | 20. Dec 2011 | Jukka

  

  Helsinki, Finland - November 24, 2011 Housemarque is once more in the Delloitte Technology Fast 50 2011 list. This prestigious annual award honors the fastest growing Finnish technology companies, based on the percentage of revenue growth over five-year period. Housemarque made it to the list for the third year in the row. In this years ...

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• Furmins Previews Roundup: Part 1

  No comments | no shares | 20. Dec 2011 | Jukka

  

  While the snow outside quickly turns into slush (winter in Finland, you cannot miss it!), we're sitting in our cozy office - if you don't count the Dead Nation coffins laying here and there, that is - refining and improving our new baby, Furmins. Just a few weeks ago, several members from the team traveled both in the US and UK to show an early ...

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• Dead Nation: Road Of Devastation Out Now In EU

  One comment | 1 share | 28. Sep 2011 | Administrator

  

  HELSINKI, FINLAND – September 28, 2011 With over 3.8 million recruits and more than 13 billion zombies killed worldwide, the time has come to launch the ultimate zombie-killing spectacle of our time. Think you’ve got what it takes to survive “Road of Devastation?” An expansion to Dead Nation with single player and two player co-op ...

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• ROD: New Weapons, New Enemies, New Rules

  No comments | 1 share | 16. Sep 2011 | Administrator

  

  HELSINKI, FINLAND – September 16, 2011 As Road of Devastation begins, you (and your partner if co-op) escape from a laboratory and find yourself at a crossroads leading to three different roads. Each road has its own perks and dangers lying in wait – with different environments, items and enemies for you to discover. Choose your road, and ...

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• Housemarque announces Furmins for iOS

  No comments | no shares | 09. Sep 2011 | Administrator

  

  HELSINKI, FINLAND - August 24, 2011 Independent Finnish developer Housemarque, the critically acclaimed studio behind Super Stardust HD, Outland and Dead Nation, have announced their next title, Furmins, a physics-based action puzzle game releasing on iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch later this year. Making its behind-closed-doors playable debut ...

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• Housemarque announces Dead Nation DLC Road of Devastation

  No comments | 1 share | 06. Sep 2011 | Administrator

  

  HELSINKI, FINLAND – September 6, 2011 Independent Finnish developer Housemarque, the critically acclaimed studio behind Super Stardust HD, Outland, Dead Nation and upcoming Furmins, have today announced new DLC content for ‘PlayStation(R) Network exclusive smash hit Dead Nation. Millions of Dead Nation recruits fighting against the ...

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• Furmins Fact Sheet

  No comments | no shares | 31. Aug 2011 | Administrator

  

  Developer: Housemarque Release date: Q4 2011 Genre: Physics action puzzle Platforms: iPad/iPhone/iPod Price: TBD Premium Game: Universal version for iPad/iPhone/iPod Less expensive iPhone/iPod version Full game Supports in-app purchases for downloading content Story: The furmins are a happy race of creatures living a ...

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